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Birthdays

Frederick Augustus Cockling

1816-08-22 - 1891-09-18

Thomas Treadwell Davis

1810-08-22 - 1872-05-02

Joseph Gillespie

1809-08-22 - 1885-01-07

William Selby Harney

1800-08-22 - 1889-05-09

Nathanial Harrison Harris

1834-08-22 - 1900-08-23

John Rogers McBride

1832-08-22 - 1904-07-20

Joseph Anthony Mower

1827-08-22 - 1870-01-06

Henry Eshleman Oakes

1824-08-22 - 1881-07-01

George Stoneman Jr.

1822-08-22 - 1894-09-05

Edward Davis Townsend

1817-08-22 - 1893-05-10

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Events

Legal/Political	Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865
Legal/Political	Andrew Gregg Curtin serves as Governor of Pennslyvania	01/15/1861 to 01/15/1867
Personal	John W. Forney serves as secretary of the United States Senate	07/15/1861 to 06/04/1868

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Documents

Miscellaneous	Abraham Lincoln, Speech to the 166th Ohio Regiment, Washington, D.C., August 22, 1864	08/22/1864
Letter	Henry J. Raymond to Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1864, New York City	08/22/1864
Letter	John D. Johnston to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, May 25, 1849	08/22/1864